Asa Branca - LITLR Past Fest revisited

[alfstone]

Asa Branca is a Brazilian song...well, not the usual Brazilian song, since it was composed in 1947 by Luís Gonzaga e Humberto Teixeira Cavalcanti, and is about a different part of Brazil, the North-East region. So, nothing to do with bossa, samba & things like that, but anyway, according to Wikipedia, it was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 4th greatest Brazilian song.

I discovered Asa Branca by the interpretation of Toquinho, the great Vinicius de Moraes guitarist, very popular here in Italy.

How I recorded it:

the guitar is my old (1974) Yamaha G-180 classical guitar.

left channel: the little (GREAT) iRig Acoustic Stage
right channel: a very old, little, inexpensive, BarcusBerry contact microphone going into the Fishman Aura Spectrum DI

Both sources going at the same time to a couple of mono tracks of the DP-24SD

No overdubs, everything direct.

Enjoy!  

Alfredo

[Jean Pierre]

Thank you for the discovery Alfredo ... I did not know this piece

Your Yamaha classical guitar has a very nice sound ...

It does good a little Brazilian music ! ..

Toquino is one of my favorite brasilian guitar players

By curiosity I searched asa branca on YT .. and I also found this version by Baden Pauwells, another of my favorite Brazilian guitar player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGcdcOFPVwE

I have to make a cover of BP soon it will be: retrato brasileiro (not too difficult but very beautiful

[alfstone]

Thanks JP, I didn't know the Baden Powell version. Completely different from the Toquinho one. The Toquinho version is way simpler, and it reflects more clearly the original version, while the Baden Powell cover is much more sophisticated, complicated, and with much improvisation, but this way it *forgets* the original tune.

Alfredo

[Jean Pierre]

Yes absolutely  agree with your comments Afredo

Good evening in Sicily, here in Lyon it is hell 34 ° in the apartment, 70% humidity

... luckily I leave in Savoy tomorrow

[alfstone]

Here sunshine as usual, but the sea breeze helps a lot...

Alfredo

[Hook]

Hot, muggy & humid here. I think the weather person said 1 million degrees today but you song chilled me right out.
Rock on!

[Jean Pierre]

thank you Alfredo and Hook for this news meteo of your respective countries

sea breeze helps a lot.

yes, The heat is totally bearable by the sea
By the way, it would be necessary to make a song to the praise / celebration of the mediterranean sea meditte ... the most beautiful of the world! 

[Oldrottenhead]

JINGS CRIVVENS AND HELP MA BOAB HOW DID I MISS THIS LITTLE BEAUTY. OOPS caplocks.